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Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [273r] (554/968)
The record is made up of 1 volume (480 folios). It was created in 12 Oct 1933-3 Jun 1937. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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I take it that we are not very directly concerned with
the form of government proposed to he set up by this draft
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
in Aden and by the accompanying
Instructions, nor indeed with the method by which the
intended results are to be brought about. These appear to
be matters primarily for the Colonial Office. Some of the
provisions of the Order seem from our standpoint unusual
and also, in some respects, the distribution of matter
between the Order and the Instructions, e.g. the provision
in the Order that there shall be an Executive Council and
the absence from the Order of any provision as to what
function this Council is to perform; this is to be found
in the instructions. But no doubt both the matter and the
! manner are more or less in common Colonial Office form.
It is, however, our business, I presume, to assist the
| colonial Office so far as we ctn to ensure that the
provisions of the Order will be such as to make the
position in Aden legally watertight from the appointed day.
I agree with the Legal Adviser in feeling some doubt whether
paragraph 16 of the draft Order is really a sufficient
clearing up of the position as to the law to be m force
• + h The law in force in Aden at the
from the appointed day. in e
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The volume contains papers regarding the transfer of the civil administration of Aden from the Government of India to the Colonial Office, and the preparation of the Aden Colony Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. (1936), and 'Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Aden (1937)'.
The volume is predominantly made up of correspondence between the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Political Department, the Colonial Office, the Aden Chief Commissioner (later Governor) Bernard Reilly, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Legal Advisor's Department, and the Secretary of State for India. The volume also contains numerous heavily-annotated drafts of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. and the Royal Instructions, plus minutes of meetings held at the Colonial Office, and extracts from the Home Affairs Committee and the Joint Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Final drafts can be found at folios 13-20, in addition to copies of Reilly's inauguration speech (folios 25-28).
The correspondence covers a range of topics, including: Indian and Arab sentiment over the transfer; problems of condominion; the importance of Aden to Britain's imperial aims; representations from the Indian and Aden business communities; the maintenance of representation for Aden subjects at the Bombay High Court; Aden's free port status; questions of income tax and salt duty; the wording of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. and Royal Instructions; and a proposal to list the Kuria Muria Islands as a named dependency of Aden, comparable to Shaikh Othman, Imad and Hiswa, and Perim.
The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 4).
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- 1 volume (480 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 480; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The fold-outs on f 147, f 158 and f 159 are A and B items which are attached to the folios in order to add additional information about the document.
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- Title
- Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:67v, 70r:77v, 80r:146v, 147ar:147av, 147r:159r, 159av, 159r, 159av, 160r:355v, 357r:366v, 375r:376v, 385r:413v, 415r:423v, 426r:440v, 453r:459v, 462r:479v, back-i
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